Credit Between Cultures: Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa

✍ Scribed by Parker MacDonald Shipton

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 375
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Parker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives—cultural,  economic, political, and religious-philosophical—and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of the past half century (including perennial World Bank orthodoxy) about the need for credit among African farming people.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
CHAPTER 1. Introduction A Golden Pendulum
CHAPTER 2. Context for Credit A Setting at the Source of the Nile
CHAPTER 3 .Three Faces of the Loan Charity, Usury, . . . and Fantasy
CHAPTER 4. Plans and Dreams An Integrated Approach on Paper
CHAPTER 5. Lenders and Lineages Nepotism as Loyalty
CHAPTER 6 .Untying a Package Deal Borrowing Green Revolution Technology
CHAPTER 7 .Debts and Dodges The Moral and the Hazard in Repayment
CHAPTER 8. In a White Elephant’s Shadow Reversal and Repetition
CHAPTER 9. Wildfire Tobacco Contract Farming
CHAPTER 10 .Self- Help and the Underground Individual Incentive and the Group Guarantee
CHAPTER 11. Self- Help with Help Banking Between Charity and Usury
CHAPTER 12. Crossing Back Rethinking Credit Between Cultures
Notes
References
Index